Show a sign-up unit when items are added to cart

You can set up sign-up units to appear when shoppers add the first item to their cart on your eCommerce store. These sign-up units can appear in addition to others, like those that welcome shoppers on your homepage and bubbles that appear throughout your site.

Displaying sign-up units when shoppers add the first item to their cart is a great way to capture potential subscribers likely to make purchases from your brand.

Set a sign-up unit to appear when a shopper adds the first item to their cart

  1. Create or edit a sign-up unit.
  2. Go to the Bubble.
  3. Click Edit design.
  4. Click the X to Remove the bubble.
  5. In the popup, click Remove bubble.
  6. Click Save changes.
    Animation showing a user removing the Bubble from a sign-up unit in the Attentive UI.
  7. Click Edit next to Display rules.
  8. Click Edit.
  9. Choose on add to cart from the Timing dropdown.
  10. Choose Every session and Every pageview under Sessions & pageviews.
  11. Click Update.
    Animation showing a user selecting 'on add to cart' from the 'Timing' dropdown, 'every session' and 'every pageview' from the 'sessions & pageviews' dropdowns.
  12. Finish designing the sign-up unit, then click Schedule and activate.

The sign-up unit is now set up to appear the first time a subscriber adds an item to their cart.

Reach out to your Attentive CSM or our White Glove team (whiteglove@attentivemobile.com) if you’d like to set up an A/B test to track the number of additional subscribers who opt in after seeing the sign-up unit when adding the first item to their cart.

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